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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

Our readership continues to grow but none of this would’ve been possible without readers and donors. We need your support now more than ever, with the rise of the right, as progressives we must continue to fight back against regressive policies and ideas.

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LFF is closed over the Christmas holidays

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.

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‘The Conservatives have no solution to the cost of living crisis, and Rishi Sunak is only raising bills and making Britain more insecure.’

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Former Telegraph editor says he will vote Labour rather than ‘dreadful’ Tory government

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
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Max Hastings is the latest high-profile figure to announce that they are giving up on the Tories.

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Basit Mahmood
13 October, 2023

“I was told that Dom was the secret PM. How wrong they are. I look forward to telling select cttee tomorrow – “oh fuck no, don’t worry about Dom, the real person in charge is Carrie.”

Palace of Westminster
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The British political system breeds corruption

Prem Sikka
13 October, 2023

“Whilst any drive against corruption is welcome, a focus on Covid alone will neither shackle predatory corporations nor the political system which nurtures nefarious practices.”

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EXCLUSIVE: Voters say multiculturalism in the UK has been a success, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
13 October, 2023

Despite hard-right Tory politicians like Home Secretary Suella Braverman recently claiming that multiculturalism has failed, British voters think the opposite and say it has been a success

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Proportional representation is key to fixing our broken politics

Tom Brake
13 October, 2023

‘We know that anyone serious about Britain getting its future back won’t be able to do so without PR.’

Voting Ballot Box
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‘Proportional representation will lead to better politics’, Labour conference told

LFF Reporter
12 October, 2023

Voting reform is ‘not just about who the system will allow us to care for but what the system allows us to care for’

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‘Dangerous levels of concentrated ownership’ in UK media: Just 3 publishers control 90% of print reach

Basit Mahmood
12 October, 2023

“A free, independent and plural media is essential to the functioning of a healthy democracy.”

Rishi Sunak in Aberdeen
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EXCLUSIVE: Majority of voters say the government does not care about levelling up, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
12 October, 2023

55% of voters in the North West believe that the government does not care about levelling up, as do 52% of voters in Yorkshire and the Humber.

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